computer is running really slowly

espiritus mortum

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Loc: westtown, NY

3+ Months Ago

my computer is running really slowly. i have an emachines with a 160 gb hard drive and a 3200+ AMD athlon 64 processor that runs widows xp home edition. lately its been running very slowly and despite my best efforts i can't isolate the problem. i scanned it with spy sweeper and norton antivirus and antispyware. its clean. the hard drive is only 30 % full and in System Configuration Utility under the start up tab i have 22 item most of them antispyware and antivirus programs or hardware like my printer. some of them are a mystery though. like a start up item TANGOM~1 and a few others like MSASCui. being that there ar 22 items on the start up tab i figure that was the problem but when i turned a few seemingly none essentials off (like AIM and Windows messenger) my computer ran even slower and its CPU usage in task manager went from an average 10% in idle with no applications open(which seems a little high in the first place) to 50%. its become rediculesly slow to the point where it actually takes a few minutes for an some applications to open. please help of refer me to someone who can. thanx.

tomrulez

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Posts: 571

Loc: England!!

3+ Months Ago

Post a Hijack this log and ill take a look, sounds like it will be software related.

espiritus mortum

Born

Posts: 4

Loc: westtown, NY

3+ Months Ago

this is my hijackthis log (which mean absolutly nothing to me so feel free to interprit):